# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S233
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232 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

Higher Education, in conjunction with the representatives of
Synod’s four terminal schools, recommends for approval the pro-
posed program and scope of graduate-study offerings:

1. Concordia Seminary in St. Louis is to be encouraged to
develop its present graduate theological program leading to the
degree of Bachelor of Divinity, Master of Sacred Theology, and
Doctor of Theology. In addition, the St. Louis Seminary is to be
authorized to develop a course of studies leading to the Master’s
degree, with a Bachelor’s degree as prerequisite. This new Mas-
ter’s-degree program at the St. Louis Seminary would provide for
concentration in the field of theology and religious education.

The development of this further program should make it
possible for selected graduates of the teachers colleges and of
the Springfield Seminary to continue their professional studies
and preparation toward a further goal.

2. A Master’s-degree program in professional education should
be offered by the teachers colleges. The degree should be Master
of Arts in Education or Master of Education and should normally
take at least one year beyond the completion of the Bachelor’s
degree in Education. This program would take into consideration
the special needs of the church and could include such areas as
parish administration, human growth and development, theory and
practice in parish education and youth work, church music, and
religion. While about half of the courses necessarily would be in
the education area, intensive additional course work would be
required in religion. About one third of the courses would be in
the area of free electives available to the candidate. Details of the
fifth-year curriculum are to be studied further by the faculties
of the two teachers colleges in co-operation with the Curriculum
Commission of the Board for Higher Education.

3. The St. Louis Seminary is to continue its established prac-
tice of offering selected courses in the graduate-study program
during the regular school year as well as in its summer sessions;
however, for the immediate future, graduate courses at the St. Louis
Seminary for the new Master’s program are to be offered primarily
in the summer sessions only.

4. For the immediate future the teachers college at River
Forest, after approval of its Board of Control, is to offer authorized
graduate courses in the fifth-year program in the summer ses-
sions primarily, beginning with the summer of 1957. Selected grad-
uate courses may be offered as late-afternoon classes or Saturday
classes during the school year.

5. The Board of Control of Concordia Teachers College, Sew-
ard, Nebr., is to institute a similar fifth-year program upon recom-